Carps Jump Over the Dragon Gate is a beginner’s level (300 words) Chinese reader which tells a story of carps jumping over the Dragon Gate and becoming dragons in the heaven with their own efforts and their friends' help using concise language and fantastic illustrations. A wordlist is provided for the story in each book, and small exercises and a passage for extended reading are provided after the story to help students to do self-evaluations and teachers to conduct classroom activities. The book can be used with an MPR talking pen, which will read out any word you touch. A free CD-ROM included narrates the story, the passage for extended reading and the wordlist in the book.